Open Dental

And I guess at this point with technology, it's kind of death by subscriptions.

If you're using Dentrix or Open Dental, you have to stack on quite a few tools to make it efficient.

So we're seeing a lot of requests around trying to streamline that down and reduce IT expenses, to be honest.

Yeah.

I mean, it used to be a plugin here and a plugin there, and then it was bridge software to make sure that the plugins worked with, you know, a closed system.

And then, and then there was open dental, which was super open and now it's not so open.

And now there's like, there's a very, there was for a long time, very limited cloud-based software, which frankly, I didn't think was very good.

And now we have some better players coming to the market with the dental app and And, uh, and the plugins, the plugins that were companies in and of themselves.

So are the...

Open Dental is open source, but not so much anymore.

But there's a lot of practice management softwares that are closed source.

So the bridge allows the processor to integrate with the practice management software, regardless if it's closed or open, or are some bridges still impenetrable?

I'm sorry.

Interface is more open source.

So Open Dental historically has been the greatest one.

I mean, that was already open source from the beginning.

Everything else still works including new patient production which comes from your practice software.

The four tabs and what you do with each start here defines every figure, explains where to find it in Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, or Curve, and flags the mistake people usually make when recording it.

Monthly inputs is where you enter your data.

12 rows, one per month.

But, yeah, it's Dentrix.

It's Open Dental.

It's CareStack and Dentrix Ascend as well.

So it's really cool software.

But if you're not a company that's raised a ton of money and you can't put a ton of creativity and resources towards that normalization effort, you're going to have a very difficult time.

You're going to just limit yourself to like, I only serve Open Dental or I only serve Eagle Top and only these versions, right? Think about it.

When you're talking about Dentrix or Open Dental or Dexus, you're talking about many versions over decades of those systems too.

So it's not like there's just 12.

Like in reality, there's like a hundred infrastructure reality, like a, like combinations or more to interface with.

Do you think the Dentrix and the Eaglesofts and the open dentals of the world are kind of like Salesforce and some of these big companies that the Fortune 500 all use? And now some of them might be thinking, man, maybe that ought to just be completely rebuilt from scratch with all this new modern AI and Python.

Or do you think Dentrix, EagleSoft, and OpenDental will always be the hub and everything will connect to it?

Yeah, so I definitely think that the future is cloud-based.

But let's break that down for a second.

And if anyone knows that have done training with me, I'll log in.

I'll see your open dental.

And I'll go in and do all my little fancy switches.

And then it's like, OK, it's done.

So what I did is I did a front to last page on visuals of what the reports will look like, how often you're going to run them.

That way, if you guys want a copy of this, everything will be in one place.

So this is in one of them, creating track stats, open dental.

Again, I know that DSI is very open dental driven.

I love my Eaglesoft.

I love my Open Dental.

And I'm like, I'm not changing.

It's too much change.

We do a great job and, and frankly, like, I, I wanna make it clear, your practice management software can do this too.

It's definitely more con- time-consuming, and it takes a little more to digest and understand the nuances, especially if you move from a practice on Open Dental to Dentrix, right? Everything's tracked a little differently.

So I always like to say start somewhere.

If you want the ease and accessibility of a tool like, like DI, great.